BookBrowse Reviews The Parrot and the Igloo by David Lipsky

David Lipsky's nonfiction book The Parrot and the Igloo is an in-depth look at the development of climate change denial and the deliberate erosion of public trust in science. The book is divided into three sections: inventors, scientists, and deniers. Through these, Lipsky traces first the rise in use of fossil fuels, then the hard work and dedication that allowed scientists to understand climate change and its causes, and finally, the development of denial strategies to protect harmful industries such as tobacco and the refinement of those strategies for use in climate change denial.

The first section, which covers the development of technology that led to widespread use of electricity, is both the shortest and the weakest. It is well-written, but I found it frustrating to pick up a book about the politics of climate change and find myself reading about Samuel Morse's financial ...